The Women's World Cup is about as relevant to this discussion as Salt Lake City hosting the Winter Olympics in 2002. As in, not at all. Canada hosted a WWC too for goodness sake.
I don't know if that is accurate. For countries that have had success, Women's soccer is of some import. Mostly though, to be sure, it is in countries that don't have a tradition of success in Men's international soccer.
So... Canada and the US, maybe Sweden. 3 countries, ~5 percent of the population. Nobody sounds about right.
I mean, sure, a bunch of fair-weather soccer mom and dads takes the family out to a USWNT game to 1) teach little Jane that girls can also play 2) USA #1, USA #1.... But look at the attendance for professional women's soccer. I mean, I haven't, cause I don't care, but it has to be super low cause *nobody actually cares about women's soccer. *nobody ~= very, very few
you'd better throw Canada into the mix...by 2026 FIFA surely will have expanded the WC from 48 teams to 64 anyways: http://www.espnfc.com/fifa-world-cu...26-world-cup-bid-a-possibility-concacaf-chief
64 makes much more sense (ie, 16 groups of 4) than the proposal of 48 (16 groups of 3). Three teams in a group is asking for nightmare scenarios. A lot of groups in a 3 way tie with 2 pts each.
Is that what Infantino is suggesting? Groups of three? I heard him speak about this, but suggested that there might be an opening round of single elimination games? I can't find the quote but I have no idea how that would work either. Make 16 or so teams practice for a month so that they can play 1 elimination game and then go home?
The USSF does not represent the US Government, so I'm not sure why they'd take it out on US soccer. It's not their fault Trump was elected.
Nobody likes Qatar or Russia much, yet here we are... FIFA cares about money. The USA makes them the most money. That's why we'll end up as hosts. They couldn't give a rat's ass about "growing the game". If Trump can pay the bribe money, we're a lock.
Well oil companies no longer have to report the Bribes they pay to the government, so that could help secure the World cup. Lets just drop any Justice department investigations into FIFA corruption and the chances go way up.
Get ready for some Futbol http://www.foxsports.com/soccer/gal...a-2026-world-cup-host-bid-announcement-041017
In some ways I think It should have been more evenly distributed but hey, I am not complaining at all.
Dumb idea for Mexico, why even bother with only 10 games? I would've rather just have those 10 games in the US. Also since the final will be in the US, I EXPECT the opening game to be at Azteca.